Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

Herod was the Roman-appointed King of Judea when a baby boy named Jesus ... This journey was prompted by a decree from Caesar Augustus requiring a census of the entire Roman world (Luke 2:1-5).

Dedication of King Herod’s renovations on the Second Temple ... in accordance with the decree issued by King Achashveirosh 11 months earlier. Achashveirosh never rescinded the decree that ...

They returned home by another road as God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod. King Herod was partly of Jewish descent. The Romans allowed him to rule for them as Judea’s king ...

For instance, both Matthew and Luke date Jesus’ birth toward the end of the reign of King Herod the Great, who we know from various ... also situates Jesus’ birth shortly after a census decree from ...